CYFEST-14: FERMENT
CYFEST, one of the biggest international media art festivals in Eastern Europe, was founded by a group of independent artists and curators in 2007. Since its inception, CYFEST’s main concerns have been to examine the dialogue between new and traditional visual languages and to show technological achievements via artistic transformation.
HayArt Cultural Center / Yerevan / Armenia
Site-Specific Sonic Performance and Installation, 2022
The project is created on-site through the kind invitation of CYFEST and with the precious expertise of the winemakers
Inkjet Prints on voile; Ableton, Envelope, Jamm Pro, max/MSP, Reaper; field recordings with geophone, hydrophone, miniature microphone, coil, wine amphora
Bubbles, metaphors, poetry.
The project explores wine fermentation. Armenia has been producing wine for a long time, and may even have been the first place to do so, around 6,000 years ago. In this project the artist works with time and field recordings related to human activities in winemaking, with the smallest sonic elements of wine fermentation (micro), and resonant spaces of wine production (macro). The central idea resides in exploring temporality in the micro (intern) and macro (extern) relationships in the thingness of winemaking. The presentation of the work as performance and installation involves local techniques, craftsmanship, and objects like KARAS, transformed into loudspeakers.
LUCA FORCUCCI 